How Flu Shots May Improve Your Chance Of Getting Pregnant

Flu shots are a must have during pregnancy to make sure mother and baby do not get severely ill. For years, the Centers for Disease Control and the World Health Organization have recommended that pregnant women get seasonal flu vaccines. But now scientists have found evidence that flu vaccinations actually improve the quality of pregnancy, and may possibly increase the odds for a successful IVF (in vitro fertilization) cycle. If you are trying to get pregnant, then you definitely want to listen up.

A recent article in Science Magazine highlighted two clinical trials that are currently being done by the Center for Human Reproduction to determine whether giving women flu shots before they begin an IVF cycle can improve success rates. The scientists conducting these studies think that the vaccinations can increase the chances of implantation by stimulating a woman’s immune system to accept the embryo. They expect to see better implantation rates and fewer miscarriages from the flu shot.

They think this is possible because of the relationship between the immune system and reproduction. Women must have a strong and active immune system for a healthy pregnancy to occur. An increase in molecules that promote inflammation helps ensure that the lining of the uterus is ready to receive an embryo – a process called immunological tolerance. The flu shots are expected to stimulate molecular pathways that keep tolerance from breaking down too early. The scientists wonder if the flu vaccine can have this effect late in pregnancy, then maybe it can also help early in pregnancy as well.

In one of the trials, women will receive a flu shot or a placebo injection 10 days before they begin an IVF cycle. The researchers will assess whether the women who got the actual vaccines were more likely to become pregnant. They will also look at the levels of immune molecules in their blood to determine if tolerance occurred. The second trial will follow the same protocol except that the women will use embryos created from donor eggs instead of their own eggs. The research team intends to work with other fertility clinics to study about 1500 women in all.

One thing to keep in mind, however, is that the impact on fertility is still expected to be limited because researchers estimate that only about 15 percent of miscarriages happen because of a lack of tolerance. Instead, most occur because the embryo has chromosome abnormalities which the flu vaccine will not have an impact on.

The scientists working on these current trials came up with their hypothesis based on a few recent studies showing how flu shots have improved pregnancy. A 2014 study intended only to confirm the safety of flu vaccines during pregnancy ended up finding that it actually protected the baby by reducing the occurrence of stillbirths.

Next, a 2016 study published in Clinical Infectious Diseases reported that stillbirths were half as common in women who received a flu shot during pregnancy than those who did not receive the shot. Researchers in Western Australia analyzed data from 60,000 births during the 2012 and 2013 seasonal influenza epidemics. They found that women who received the vaccine during pregnancy were 51 percent less likely to experience a stillbirth than the unvaccinated expectant mothers

Finally, another study from 2016 determined that women in Laos who had gotten a flu shot were 41 percent less likely to give birth prematurely. They had a reduced risk of delivering a preterm infant during the flu season. The research found that overall, vaccination may prevent one in five preterm births.

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From the manufacturer’s own vaccine package insert—
“Safety and efficacy have not been established in pregnant women.”

If you do get the flu shot while pregnant, you are put into a “registry” to track your pregnancy after the flu shot. You’ll be participating in an experiment.

Again, directly from the GSK Flulaval product package insert—
“Register women who receive FLULAVAL while pregnant in the ‘Pregnancy Registry’ by calling 1-888-452-9622.”

Shawn_Siegel

LOLOLOLOLOLOL

nrbrk

The vaccine industry couldn’t make it easier to be anti-vaccine. They actually print all the reasons right there in vaccine manufacturer’s own package inserts—including flu shots!

I especially appreciate the part where the vaccine manufacturers freely admit that they don’t study vaccines for carcinogenicity (cancer-causing) or mutagenicity (DNA mutation-causing). Who knew?!

Or the part where they admit that the vaccinated child can still get the disease he or she was vaccinated against—including MEASLES, MUMPS, WHOOPING COUGH, FLU, ETC.—and shed it on to others. This is great stuff!

It’s so easy to be anti-vaccine that I don’t understand how parents still choose to inject their children with this neurotoxic swill. The information’s right there.

ALWAYS ASK YOUR DOCTOR FOR THE VACCINE PACKAGE INSERTS BEFORE VACCINATING YOU OR YOUR CHILD.

Very interesting.
Any help for parents wishing children is always good news.
The evidence for the benefits of influenza vaccine during pregnancy just keep stacking up.

Don’t forget about mother getting the pertussis vaccine during pregnancy to give baby a leg up on immunity to whooping cough during their first few months and, hopefully, until their DTaP vaccinations take protective effect sometime after the 6 months dose.

I tried to “look it up myself” and found nothing.
I therefore conclude you are a liar.
If you actually have some evidence you’d better produce it or everyone will conclude you are a liar who is unable to produce evidence for your statements.

Renè

I therefore conclude you are a liar.

I conclude that you are a paid shill. Go back to your cave asshole.

poppy72

I see you have not changed Rene, still stooping to name calling, you are truly a sad person.

Renè

Name calling? Me?

Check out Reality022’s posts. You haven’t seen name calling until you have read those.

poppy72

I have not seen him use the as**ole word.

poppy72

JUST caught you lying. On another site you said I was banned for sexual harrassment,because you claimed you had read it. LIAR! you assumed I was banned as poppy72 NO I was banned at that time using a previous account with a different name AND it was not sexual harrassment. CAUGHT YOU LIAR.

Renè

You were banned for trying to sell morphine.

poppy72

Just proven to everybody here as to what a LIAR you are, first is was sexual harassment now it’s selling Morphine, you are a sick LIAR.

Renè

At least I don’t dress-up like Hitler and beat puppies like you do.

shay simmons

‘Look it up yourself’ – in other words, you’ve got nothing.

WarriorMommy

No. The flu vaccine insert itself says that “Safety and efficacy have NOT been established in pregnant women”. Which means it hasn’t even been tested on pregnant women. Did you know that those pregnant women who take the flu shot during their pregnancy are entered into a database and the outcomes of their pregnancy monitored and stored in a library of vaccine side effects. Many women who have the flu shot during pregnancy either lose their baby, their baby has some birth defect, or baby ends up in the NICU. Please do research and don’t believe articles like this, especially ones who will not cite their sources and show proof of what they claim.

You are misinterpreting the vaccine insert and, in your ignorance, forming conclusions which are unjustified.

Here’s the problem, WarriorMommy – You have to be smarter than the vaccine insert to correctly interpret it.

The vaccine insert only speaks for the research done by the manufacturer up to the time of licensure. Think – Why would they take on the responsibility of making a legal statement about someone else’s research?
Therefore, just because the vaccine manufacturer states in their product literature that they haven’t done any research in regard to application during pregnancy doesn’t mean that no one else in the whole world has done any such research.

Heck, the basis of the above article are the cites to some independent research, for God’s sake. Did that not dawn on you? There are now quite a few investigations into the safety and efficacy of the influenza and Tdap vaccines during pregnancy by researchers who are not associated with the vaccine manufacturers. They have been found incredibly safe and quite effective (see the above article).

It is due to these extensive investigations that the FDA has approved the use of the vaccines during pregnancy and the ACIP has recommended their use during pregnancy to protect little babies.

Mothers should note that the experts are telling you to get vaccinated during pregnancy to protect your baby and anonymous, anti-vaccine cultists on the internet are telling you to not do it and leave your babies unprotected.
It would seem wise to get your medical information from your physician and recognized experts rather than on the internet from HippieCrystalChic92 and WarriorMommy who failed every science and maths class they took in school and dropped out in 10th grade… but finally got a GED and now consider themselves internet medical geniuses.

Young parents – your babies are counting on you to protect them by being rational adults and ignoring the internet ignoramuses who want you to do what they say even if they have a 70 IQ.

Rebecca Embury

Young pregnant mothers are the test batch!! Do they know this?..no.

Rebecca Embury

Don’t forget to get your total required vax list Reality…including boosters – had all of them have you?..good girl. Now go top it up with fluoride and aluminum loaded skin care and be well.

Being the considerate and non-paranoid person I am, I’ve had them all, thanks. Including theTdap and the yearly influenza. I’m vaccinated per recommendations and at the point that I only require the yearly influenza vaccine to stay caught up.
How about you, Rebecca Embury? Are you a responsible adult or are you a paranoid conspiracy anti-vaccine cultist?

Have you noticed that all the anti-vaccine cultists in this discussion don’t seem to be able to bring any facts or information to the discussion. Their entire purpose is to spit venom and vent their spleens that, once again, science has shown vaccines are a positive contributor to health which is completely against their anti-vaccine religion which is backed only by fanatical obsession and uneducated opinion.

I wonder when one of them will actually produce some evidence as to why they are so upset with the research this article is based on. I’m waiting for them to bring some evidence that the research is in error.
So far it’s only been spittle-flecked babbling with absolutely no evidence presented.

How about you give it a try, Rebecca?
Got any evidence that this article is erroneous?
… Didn’t think so.
How does it feel to be in a cult?

bev

gee, how did we ever get pregnant before the big push for the flu vaccine… From the manufacturer’s own vaccine package insert—
“Safety and efficacy have not been established in pregnant women.”

nrbrk

Don’t you know? —We can’t live with the medical industrial complex.

Cyndel Jones

Wow.
Because aluminum, formaldehyde, human fetal DNA, animal DNA, antibiotics, ethylmercury (which becomes methylmercury in the body), are all such safe compounds to introduce to a developing embryo in the first stages of brain development.
Once these women have their surviving baby are these “doctors” going to follow their health history to find out if there is long term consequences? Probably not because CDC refuses to study the long term consequences of any vaccine we have available.
Or, you know, actually study it against a true placebo rather then another vaccine with the acne dangerous crap we are all concerned about.

These anti-vaxxers are never at a loss to mangle science as only ignorant 4rth graders can. Their supreme confidence in their abilities even when they demonstrate they have none is the very definition of hubris and narcissism.
Cyndel has obviously never taken any chemistry in her life and has absolutely no knowledge of the field yet feels confident in pontificating on the subject.
It is Dunning-Kruger on a grand scale.

Parent should note that this is what you are getting from the anti-vaccine cultists – People who have absolutely zero knowledge of a subject pretending they know something about it and making fools of themselves in front of people who actually studied the subject at university and, perhaps, even have degrees in the field.
It is like they are in junior high school playing pretend and thinking they are still fooling their clueless classmates when they are really speaking to PhDs who recognize a 3rd grade education when they see it.

Renè

It is like they are in junior high school playing pretend and thinking they are still fooling their clueless classmates […]

It’s like you’re describing your cronies exactly.

White and Nerdy
FallsAngel
On Its Own Merits
Jonathan “Ginger” Graham

These people are scientifically-illiterate morons.

Renè

It has been measured by Rodrigeus.

After 5 days, the animals were killed, and their tissues were collected. Total blood mercury (THg) levels were determined by ICP-MS, and methylmercury (Met-Hg), ethylmercury (Et-Hg) and inorganic mercury (Ino-Hg) levels were determined by speciation analysis with LC-ICP-MS. Mercury remains longer in the blood of rats treated with Met-Hg compared to that of TM-exposed rats. Moreover, after 48 h of the TM treatment, most of the Hg found in blood was inorganic. Of the total mercury found in the brain after TM exposure, 63% was in the form of Ino-Hg, with 13.5% as Et-Hg and 23.7% as Met-Hg. In general, mercury in tissues and blood following TM treatment was predominantly found as Ino-Hg, but a considerable amount of Et-Hg was also found in the liver and brain.

Identification and distribution of mercury species in rat tissues following administration of thimerosal or methylmercury.

Dr. King thinks that it is de-ethylated first and then methylated. This is more plausible than serial demethylation since the c-c bond is pretty tough, short, and nonreactive.

It’s well known that ethylmercury de-ethylates once it is bound to cysteine.

This article is such a LIE!!!! Do not be fooled by this crap! Years ago they would NEVER even consider giving a pregnant woman a flu shot! They have NEVER been tested for safety! Pregnant women are wising up so now the push is to give them before??? Are the people publishing these articles all morally bankrupt? The flu shot is dangerous and worthless whenever they try to shoot you up–articles like this are bought and paid for by the companies that make billions of dollars off of vaccines, Don’t believe it! Don’t do it! Shame on this magazine publishing such BS!

“”Evidence suggests that antenatal combined Tdap administered during the second or third trimester of pregnancy is not associated with clinically significant harms for the fetus or neonate,” report Mark McMillan from the University of Adelaide, Australia, and colleagues in Obstetrics and Gynecology, online February 6.”
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ncbi(dot)nlm(dot)nih(dot)gov/pubmed/26000515
Obstet Gynecol. 2015 Jun;125(6):1433-8. doi: 10.1097/AOG.0000000000000862.
Pregnancy outcomes after antepartum tetanus, diphtheria, and acellular pertussis vaccination.
Morgan JL, et al.“There was no difference in stillbirths, major malformations, chorioamnionitis, 5-minute Apgar score, or cord blood pH. Neonatal complications including ventilation requirement, sepsis, intraventricular hemorrhage, and neonatal death were also similar. However, preterm birth rates at 36 weeks of gestation or less (6% compared with 12%, P<.001), incidence of small for gestational age (10% compared with 15%, P=.03), and length of neonatal hospitalization (3.9 compared with 4.7 days, P<.001) were all significantly increased in the unvaccinated cohort. No difference in neonatal outcomes was noted between women who were administered at least two Tdap vaccines in the past 5 years (n=1,229) and those who received only a single dose (n=4,159)."
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sciencedaily(dot)com/releases/2016/05/160511162433.htm
ScienceDaily May 11, 2016
Pertussis vaccination in pregnancy is safe, study finds
Source: Taylor & Francis“There was no difference in the six maternal and seven infant health outcomes, with one exception: the vaccinated mothers were less likely to deliver by C-section, an observation unlikely to be directly connected to the vaccine.

“Our study adds to the growing body of evidence that the Tdap vaccine is safe for pregnant women and their unborn children,” says Dr. Berenson. “It’s important for women to get the Tdap vaccine while they are pregnant to protect their infants from pertussis.””
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ncbi(dot)nlm(dot)nih(dot)gov/pubmed/27002930
Hum Vaccin Immunother. 2016 Mar 22:0. [Epub ahead of print]
Maternal and Infant Outcomes among Women Vaccinated against Pertussis during Pregnancy.
Berenson AB, et al.“we reviewed medical records of 1,759 women who delivered a singleton infant at a southeast Texas public hospital between November 1, 2012 and June 30, 2014.
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Maternal Tdap vaccination was associated with decreased odds of cesarean delivery. No associations between maternal Tdap vaccination and infant outcomes were observed. This study demonstrates that Tdap vaccination during pregnancy does not increase the risk of adverse outcomes.”
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etc., etc., etc.
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pediatrics(dot)aappublications(dot)org/content/early/2016/04/30/peds.2015-2360?sso=1&sso_redirect_count=1&nfstatus=401&nftoken=00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000&nfstatusdescription=ERROR%3a+No+local+token
Pediatrics – May 2016
Influenza in Infants Born to Women Vaccinated During Pregnancy
Julie H. Shakib, et al.“CONCLUSIONS: Self-reported influenza immunization during pregnancy was low but increased after the H1N1 pandemic. Infants born to women reporting influenza immunization during pregnancy had risk reductions of 64% for ILI, 70% for laboratory-confirmed influenza, and 81% for influenza hospitalizations in their first 6 months. Maternal influenza immunization during pregnancy is a public health priority.”
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cid(dot)oxfordjournals(dot)org/content/early/2016/03/10/cid.ciw082.abstract
Clin Infect Dis. (2016) doi: 10.1093/cid/ciw082
First published online: March 30, 2016
Annette K. Regan, et al.

Seasonal Trivalent Influenza Vaccination During Pregnancy and the Incidence of Stillbirth: Population-Based Retrospective Cohort Study“Conclusions. Mothers who received seasonal TIV during pregnancy were significantly less likely to experience stillbirth compared with unvaccinated mothers. These results support the safety of seasonal influenza immunization during pregnancy and suggest a protective effect.”
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ajog(dot)org/article/S0002-9378(04)02102-7/abstract
AJOG
April 2005 Volume 192, Issue 4, Pages 1098–1106

Safety of influenza vaccination during pregnancy
Flor M. Munoz, MD, et al.“Conclusion – Influenza vaccine that was administered in the second or third trimester of gestation was safe in this study population.”
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Kansenshogaku Zasshi. 2010 Jul;84(4):449-53.
[Influenza vaccination safety during pregnancy].
[Article in Japanese]
Yamaguchi K, et al.“No adverse events were seen in pregnancy or fetal medical condition regardless of the pregnancy stage at which vaccine was administered.”
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Gee!
Look at all that research on those vaccines for use during pregnancy, and there oodles more!

Young parents should note that the anti-vaccine cultists generally are completely ignorant or abject liars when it comes to the facts about vaccines. They let their fanaticism drive their actions, not facts or truth.

Get your medical information from your doctor and recognized experts – not drooling crackpots on the internet.

marusya

Read the entire study, not just the conclusion, you will wonder how they ever reached that conclusion. I especially love the common phrase in some of these studies along the lines of “investigators dismissed a causal relationship [between adverse event and vaccine]”, but nowhere does it say on what grounds. If you don’t include a reason it’s like saying because you felt like it.

Please leave me out of your homoerotic fantasies, Rene.
It’s fine that you swing that way, but I don’t.
Next you’ll be back to your old favourite – fascination with the anus.
You’re a very disturbed person, Rene.

I’m sure the rest of the anti-vaccine cult are glad you’re on their side and they get to associate with you and are associated with you. (snicker)

Rebecca Embury

Reality… get some. Have you ever read a package insert? Would you like me to take away your rights as a parent on how you raise your child?. .oh and fyi anti vax and pro choicers do a tone more research than those opting to vax. Liars?..nope- it’s not lies, it’s just information you don’t want to hear..and that is your choice.

I’ve read all of the package inserts.
I actually know what they mean as opposed to the illiterate anti-vaccine cultists.

Why don’t you quote one of the inserts that says something you think impugns the vaccine so we can all laugh at your failure in reading comprehension?

Why don’t you start with that old favourite – the Tripedia vaccine insert?
C’mon! I know you’re just itching to show me up and quote from that insert how it admits that the vaccine causes ………

Reading anti-vaccine blogs and supplement salesmen’s sites is not what most scientists consider “research”. It is called “light reading for confirmation bias”.

Don’t make me laugh. The anti-vaxxers can’t think their way out of a paper bag. They are uniformly generally illiterate, scientifically illiterate, and innumerate. They couldn’t pass a 4rth grade math or science test.

Not to worry, it is a common failure of the anti-vaccine cultists.
(BTW – If you were to actually read my post you will see the lower half is a listing of some of the research on the influenza vaccine used during pregnancy. derp, derp.)

Lucy7

This is the most ridiculous, industry spun, bogus, nonsensical article I have ever read. Give your head a shake. Wow!

Young parents should note the cult-like behaviour of the anti-vaccinationists:
– They offer no high quality evidence for what they say.
– They demand you not listen to recognized experts but only to them.
– They present their “leaders” as experts when, in fact, they are ignorant scammers.
– etc., etc. ,etc.
Just like $camatology and L. Ron Hubbub.

Lucy7

The only delusional statements I see here are coming from you. Another brainwashed industry puppet! Anybody in their right mind knows this is bogus. You should really change your name to, Fictitious022.

Shame on you for trying to dissuade young parents from protecting their babies which will surely result in preventable infant deaths.

Where did you get your MD from that you feel qualified to give such life and death advice, Christina?
You are advising actions that you want carried out on real, live human babies.
What the hell do you know about the subject? My bet is absolutely nothing.
Did you even graduate from high school?
Did you take Biology, Chemistry, Physics and advanced maths at any point?
Be careful… if you lie someone *ahem* may test your knowledge.

Article Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, The Ohio State University Medical Center, United States; The Institute for Behavioral Medicine Research, The Ohio State University, United States; Department of Psychology, The Ohio State University, United States; Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, The Ohio State University Medical Center, United States.

Abstract:
OBJECTIVE: In the U.S., seasonal trivalent influenza vaccination (TIV) is currently universally recommended for all pregnant women. However, data on the maternal inflammatory response to vaccination is lacking and would better delineate the safety and clinical utility of immunization. In addition, for research purposes, vaccination has been used as a mild immune trigger to examine in vivo inflammatory responses in nonpregnant adults. The utility of such a model in pregnancy is unknown. Given the clinical and empirical justifications, the current study examined the magnitude, time course, and variance in inflammatory responses following seasonal influenza virus vaccination among pregnant women. METHODS: Women were assessed prior to and at one day (n=15), two days (n=10), or approximately one week (n=21) following TIV. Serum interleukin (IL)-6, tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-α, C-reactive protein (CRP), and macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF) were determined by high sensitivity immunoassay. RESULTS: Significant increases in CRP were seen at one and two days post-vaccination (ps<05). A similar effect was seen for TNF-α, for which an increase at two days post-vaccination approached statistical significance (p=.06). There was considerable variability in magnitude of response; coefficients of variation for change at two days post-vaccination ranged from 122% to 728%, with the greatest variability in IL-6 responsesat this timepoint. CONCLUSIONS: Trivalent influenza virus vaccination elicits a measurable inflammatory response among pregnant women. There is sufficient variability in response for testing associations with clinical outcomes. As adverse perinatal health outcomes including preeclampsia and preterm birth have an inflammatory component, a tendency toward greater inflammatory responding to immune triggers may predict risk of adverse outcomes, providing insight into biological mechanisms underlying risk. The inflammatory response elicited by vaccination is substantially milder and more transientthan seen in infectious illness, arguing for the clinical value of vaccination. However, further research is needed to confirm that the mild inflammatory response elicited by vaccination is benign in pregnancy.

Do you know how to read?
Do you know how to read and interpret a scientific article? (The answer is obviously – “No”)

See where they use the phrase “which may increase”?
Tell the class what that speculative statement means, Lucy7

See where they say, “As adverse perinatal health outcomes including preeclampsia and preterm birth have an inflammatory component, a tendency toward greater inflammatory responding to immune triggers may predict risk of adverse outcomes,…”
Once again – Tell the class what that speculative statement means, Lucy7.

See where they state “There is sufficient variability in response for testing associations with clinical outcomes.”?
What the hell do you think some of the studies I cited were?
Did you notice none of them noted an increase in the rate of adverse outcomes? Are you illiterate?

Give it up, high school dropout. You are way out of your league.
Look up Dunning-Kruger then look in the mirror.

You know what causes even more, a lot, lot more, inflammation in pregnant women?
Coming down with real influenza.
That little bug is known to increase the rate of miscarriage and spontaneous abortions.

Apparently the trade-off of avoiding a speculative risk in favour of a known, much greater risk is just fine with you.
Of course it is because you are merely one of the drones in the anti-vaccine cult and are only capable of believing what your ignorant, scamming, supplement selling leaders tell you to believe.

Lucy7

Sure, industry troll!

Harry Ballsonya

There is no guarantee that you will even come down with the flu if you don’t get the vaccine – so let’s see, risk certain inflammaton with the vaccine and still risk contracting the flu (we all know the flu vaccine’s track record is not good in even preventing the flu) – if you are pregnant and want to take that risk, be my guest, no one is stopping you – please stop belittling those who choose an alternative route to flu prevention (such as proper hand washing to start!)

Brian

“There is no guarantee that you will even come down with the flu if you don’t get the vaccine”

Nope, but you’re far less likely. That’s the point.

There is no guarantee that a seat belt won’t save your life in a crash, but that doesn’t authorize you to tell people they don’t have to wear them.

shay simmons

That’s the study that states: “The inflammatory response elicited by vaccination is substantially milder and more transient than seen in infectious illness, arguing for the clinical value of vaccination. “

For young parents interested in whether there are more studies investigating the safety and efficacy of these vaccines during pregnancy you will find a non-exhasustive list here:
www(dot)ncbi(dot)nlm(dot)nih(dot)gov/pubmed?linkname=pubmed_pubmed&from_uid=27002930

You will see that a lot of research by actual scientists, not ignorant and looney supplement salesmen and RubeTube video producers, has been done.

The you can once again contemplate:Why do anti-vaccine cultists constantly lie?

AutismDadd

Young parents…would you actually listen to Reality022? If so you are doomed. If not good for you.

Harry Ballsonya

lol agreed- anyone who takes advice from someone who perpetually calls other people names in hopes that it will get their point across better is not very intelligent.

poppy72

You are refferring to Autismdadd?

Truth

This writer should be sued for publishing disinformaton. The CDC must be pretty desperate to stoop so low as to spread lies like this. Let’s keep poisoning the human race with toxic chemicals like aluminum and mercury. This article is laughable, at best.

shay simmons

What is laughable is your appalling ignorance of chemistry. Hint: compounds are not elements.

Truth

I see. You want to play semantics because you’ve got no argument against the truth. Lol.

shay simmons

It’s chemistry. Sorry that’s such unfamiliar territory for you.

Truth

You’re brainwashed. Follow the $. The CDC has already been caught lying. You clearly know very little about how the pharmaceutical industry works. Go back to watching your ABC news, Sheep.

Brian

If you aren’t brainwashed yourself, can you answer the following questions-

1. What is the federally mandated levels at which the aluminum or mercuric compounds considered harmful?
2. At what level are these ingredients present in a vaccine?

Brian

Concentrations are irrelevant. Please try again. What is the actual limit?

shay simmons

But I do know how chemistry works.

Renè

You know how to parrot moronic platitudes.

Renè

Apparently unfamiliar to you. These elements are present in vaccines.

Renè

Such a stale trope. Pretty soon you’ll hear her rambling about sodium chloride. [Hint Shay, ethylmercury is even more toxic than ionic mercury. This has been proven. Mercury Chloride isn’t as toxic as ethylmercury.]

Renè

Thimerosal is an egregious poison that never was necessary to being with. Safer preservatives such as phenyl, phenoxyethanol, and benzylthonium chloride were always available.

And aluminum phosphate isn’t necessary either. Calcium phosphate has been used in France where people are a bit more sane.

Brian

Someone showed me that an infant could have an entire lifetime worth of vaccines and would still be less than 1% the LD50 limit for thimerosal, proving that it is safe in the quantities in vaccines.

That person was you.

Renè

They would still be alive, but i’m afraid that the aluminum and mercury would take their toll.

Hillary Sterling Yerkish

You are an idiot, Sandi Schwartz! Yeah, because pumping yourself with aluminum, formaldehyde and other toxins is a great idea, especially during pregnancy. Did you get paid to write this crap? How can you even live with yourself giving such bad advice to pregnant women? The flu shot has one of the highest rates of adverse reactions. Google it.

shay simmons

Can you answer the following simple questions, Hillary?

1. What is a toxin?
2. What toxins are found in the flu shot?
3. What is the federally mandated levels at which these ingredients are considered harmful?
4. At what level are these ingredients present in the flu vaccine?

Thanking you in advance.

Brian

Hi brand new disqus account. I would also be interested if you can answer shay’s questions below. They’re fundamental to your argument.

How about that Revolution 4 Truth march on DC this weekend?
Wasn’t that just amazing??!!!????
There must have been dozens of anti-vax loons from all over the country marching slouching through the rain to protest the media at the National Press Club. It was very impressive!!!!111!!!!!
I haven’t seen such crowds since lunch time at the Wendy’s when they are having one of their double cheeseburger specials.
Out of a nation of 320+ million the best they could muster was a few dozen drown rats. The campfire girls can rally more bodies for a bake sale.

A couple more events like that and the anti-vaccine cult will completely disappear… kinda’ like the 9/11 Troofers.

Renè

I haven’t seen such crowds since lunch time at the Wendy’s when they are having one of their double cheeseburger specials.

You seem like a person who would go there.

nmcard

This is the most ignorant & irresponsible article I have seen maybe ever. You should be ashamed of yourself Sandi Schwartz. You seem like a paid prostitute for writing such crap. Flu vaccines are not only a sham, but they are a contaminated mess of neurotoxins compromising the health of our nation. I will never again subscribe to this site.

“Food and Drug Administration commissioner nominee Scott Gottlieb said Wednesday at his Senate confirmation hearing that there “is no causal link between vaccination and autism.”

As a doctor, Gottlieb said he sympathized with parents. But this “has been one of the most exhaustively studied questions in history,” he said, and the answer was clear.”

It is beginning to look like this administration’s appointees aren’t particularly sympathetic with anti-vaccine delusions.

Welllll – there’s always the anti-vax lawyers who will bring lawsuits destined to fail against any pro-public health measure as long as the True Believers™ are willing to cough up the few hundred thousand $$$…
What? You didn’t think these guys are going to do it on the cheap, did you?
Bwahahahaha!!!! Did they even account for the moneys collected for the last 2 lawsuits? No? They don’t have to because that is one of the stipulations of your generous donation.

Then there’s always Wakefraud & Co. who will try to convince you to buy 10 tickets to his RubeTube vid even if you don’t plan on attending just to line Wakefield’s pockets stick it to the man.

This grifting will continue for as long as the drones keep handing over their hard earned cash. It will make for an excellent spectator sport.

Temporal Association of Certain Neuropsychiatric Disorders Following Vaccination of Children and Adolescents: A Pilot Case-Control Study Frontiers in Psychiatry, January 2017, Douglas L. Leslie, Robert A. Kobre, Brian J. Richmand

Summary: “Subjects with newly diagnosed anorexia nervosa were more likely than controls to have had any vaccination in the previous 3 months [hazard ratio (HR) 1.80, 95% confidence interval 1.21-2.68]. Influenza vaccinations during the prior 3, 6, and 12 months were also associated with incident diagnoses of AN, OCD, and an anxiety disorder. Several other associations were also significant with HRs greater than 1.40 (hepatitis A with OCD and AN; hepatitis B with AN; and meningitis with AN and chronic tic disorder). This pilot epidemiologic analysis implies that the onset of some neuropsychiatric disorders may be temporally related to prior vaccinations in a subset of individuals.”

Clarymond Hardt

ISRAELI AND ITALIAN SCIENTISTS WARN THAT VACCINE ADJUVANTS
(ALUMINUM) ARE CAUSING A WIDE-RANGE OF AUTOIMMUNE CONDITIONS, INCLUDING
SJOGREN’S SYNDROME

Summary: “Several case reports have suggested that
both vaccines and silicone may trigger the development of SS [Sjo?gren’s
syndrome, a chronic systemic autoimmune inflammatory condition
involving the exocrine glands]. Aluminum is one of the principal
adjuvants used in vaccine formulation and may be responsible for the
development of ASIA syndrome. It seems that its ability to behave as an
adjuvant might be related to evidence that aluminum salts seem to both
induce the activation of dendritic cells and complement components and
increase the level of chemokine secretion at the injection site… other
vaccines including Bacillus Calmette Gue?rin (BCG), hepatitis A and/or B
and human papillomavirus, should be avoided or considered only in
selected patients… There is considerable evidence raising the
possibility of vaccine-triggered autoimmunity”

Clarymond Hardt

INFANTS VACCINATED WITH MULTIPLE VACCINES AT ONCE HAVE MUCH HIGHER
HOSPITALIZATIONS AND DEATH RATES THAN INFANTS WHO RECEIVE FEWER
SIMULTANEOUS VACCINES

Combining Childhood Vaccines at One Visit Is Not Safe Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons, Summer 2016, Neil Z. Miller

Summary: “Our study showed that infants who receive
several vaccines concurrently, as recommended by CDC, are significantly
more likely to be hospitalized or die when compared with infants who
receive fewer vaccines simultaneously. It also showed that reported
adverse effects were more likely to lead to hospitalization or death in
younger infants. The safety of CDC’s childhood vaccination schedule was
never affirmed in clinical studies. Vaccines are administered to
millions of infants every year, yet health authorities have no
scientific data from synergistic toxicity studies on all combinations of
vaccines that infants are likely to receive. National vaccination
campaigns must be supported by scientific evidence.”

Clarymond Hardt

ALUMINUM IN VACCINES IS HIGHLY NEUROTOXIC AND EXPOSURE LEVELS GIVEN TO INFANTS HAVE DRAMATICALLY INCREASED

Summary: “Infants and young children throughout the
world receive high quantities of aluminum from multiple inoculations.
Incremental changes to the vaccination schedule during the past several
years significantly increased the quantity of aluminum in childhood
shots. Numerous studies provide compelling evidence that injected
aluminum can be detrimental to health. Aluminum is capable of remaining
in cells long after vaccination and may cause neurologic and autoimmune
disorders. During early development, the child’s brain is more
susceptible to toxins and the kidneys are less able to eliminate them.
Thus, children have a greater risk than adults of adverse reactions to
aluminum in vaccines. Millions of children every year are injected with
vaccines containing mercury and aluminum despite well-established
experimental evidence of the potential for additive or synergistic
toxicity when an organism is exposed to two or more toxic metals.”